All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths; they become facts, or at best, part of the public character; or at worst, catchwords.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions.

The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once.

To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion.

Whatever you do, don't whimper, but take the consequences.

There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.